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Questions about mathematical publishing, including specific journals, peer review etc.

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Where to submit this work with several unusual features?

I appreciate that questions about where to submit are generally considered off-topic, but I hope that the unusual features of the present case may make it acceptable. I have put a monograph on github ...
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University library dropping independent journal subscriptions. What to do?

We received an email from our university library stating that they plan to drop subscriptions to the following journals. These are some of the best journals published by independent sources. Of course,...
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same paper was published in the same journal twice

I just realized that the paper "Hitchin's connection and differential operators with values in the determinant bundle" by Xiaotao Suna and I-Hsun Tsai and was published twice in the Journal of ...
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The status of the journal “Forum Geometricorum”

The online journal Forum Geometricorum is a sort of central organ of elementary geometry (mainly triangle geometry and related topics). It has been published regularly since 2000 but seems to have ...
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My research paper involves computing additional terms of an existing OEIS sequence. Should I first amend the sequence or publish the results?

In the course of my research I computed terms of an existing OEIS sequence that are currently unknown. Having prepared my paper for publication, I am now faced with a (small) dilemma: Do I first ...
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"Forthcoming paper" of Goldston-Graham-Pintz-Yıldırım

The above-named authors of [1] and its (significantly different) published version [2] write: In a forthcoming paper, we will show how the methods here can be extended to prove corresponding ...
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Which journals publish mathematics book reviews?

Which mathematics journals publish book reviews? So far I have the following: Notices of the American Mathematical Society Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (From looking at its website ...
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Would you like a subject class for semigroup theory on the arXiv?

After contacting the arxiv recently about possibly adding semigroup theory as a subject class, they suggested I canvas the research community to establish whether such a subject class would be used ...
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Looking for journal (without fees) to publish a research paper in Euclidean geometry

I am looking for a place to publish a research paper in Euclidean geometry. This is a fairly lengthy article (56 pages) in which I present a fundamental property of polygons. I have already been ...
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Where could a paper on a unification of matrix decompositions be published?

I've got a paper which shows that when the spectral theorem (as a statement that every self-adjoint matrix can be unitarily diagonalised) is naively generalised to $*$-algebras other than the complex ...
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Examples of discoveries that began on (maybe obscure) low impact journals but eventually climbed up to (the mainstream) high impact journals

Let me begin with a short introduction. We, professional mathematicians, know that there are many types of journals and sometimes feel that some of them are a bit of spam (it is even common to receive ...
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What's up with old volumes of the Journal of Algebraic Geometry?

I'm not sure if this question is appropriate for MO, but I'm certain that some people visiting MO must have been confronted with the same issue as mine. It happened several times that a reference ...
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Finding the DOI for a paper

How can we find the DOI of an old paper. For example, what are the DOI of the following papers? Anderson, D.D. and Jayaram, C., 1995. Regular lattices. Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica, 30(...
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Where to submit a new proof of the continuous martingale convergence theorem?

There were various proofs of the discrete martingale convergence theorem, but as far as I know there is only one proof of the continuous version of this theorem using the up-crossing lemma. I wrote a ...
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Journals publishing long articles

I wanted suggestions on high quality journals that frequently publish long articles (70-110 pages) on stochastic analysis and/or pde's.
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